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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon 32 years ago, Mark David Chapman, was denied parole for a seventh time, New York State's Department of Corrections said on Thursday. Chapman, 57, is serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life for shooting Lennon four times in the back outside the musician's New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Chapman has come up for parole every two years since 2000 and has been turned down each time.

By Natasha Baker TORONTO, June 25 (Reuters) - In the 1960s Yoko Ono set out to create a film that would include the smiling face of every person in the world. Now, nearly five decades later, the project has come to life as an app. #smilesfilm, a new iPhone app, is the digital manifestation of Ono's long-envisioned project. The app allows people around the world to view and upload snapshots of smiling faces. It is also part of a global piece of her artwork, a changing collection of photos which reflect Ono's original vision of connecting people across the world.

Yoko Ono was an established artist before she met John Lennon, but 31 years after her husband's murder, her career runs on two tracks: managing Lennon's work with and apart from the Beatles and pursuing her own idiosyncratic muse. The curator side of her is bringing "The Artwork of John Lennon" to Oak Brook's DoubleTree hotel Friday through Sunday. The location's hook is that police in March of 1970 raided Merrill Chase's Oak Brook gallery and confiscated some of Lennon's work on obscenity grounds (Chicago Daily News headline: "Du Page court order: Lennon art to be burned")

Paul McCartney's "Ram," reissued last week in five different packages, sure didn't receive this kind of love upon its 1971 release. "'Ram' represents the nadir in the decomposition of '60s rock thus far," Jon Landau, who would go on to proclaim Bruce Springsteen "rock 'n' roll's future" and become the Boss' manager/producer, wrote in his Rolling Stone review. Calling the ex-Beatle's second album "incredibly inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant," Landau had seen McCartney's future without John Lennon and didn't like it. "(I)

Every Oct. 13, the date her famous father was born in 1925, Kitty Bruce sings "Happy Birthday" to him. Her dad, Lenny Bruce, has been dead since 1966. "It's just one way of holding on to him," she says. She has also been holding on to all manner of her father's things, rebuffing many entreaties to sell or auction them to the insatiable collectors and fans who populate the celebrity-obsessed culture in which we live. Until now. The only child of the comedian and a stripper with the stage name Honey Harlow, Kitty recently decided to part with a considerable portion of her past and, in so doing, try to polish her father's complicated legacy.

Autumn officially began last week, so we doff our caps to the acorn. Acorns appear only on oaks that have been around awhile. Thus, the wee fruits have become a symbol of patience. Various proverbs back that up. From England, we have, "Great oaks from little acorns grow," meaning big ideas take time, dude, so hold your horses. A German folk tale has it that a farmer tries to outwit Satan, to whom he has promised his soul. The smart farmer asks for a reprieve until the harvest of his first crop, then plants an acorn and buys himself a long string of years.

Basement Jaxx, "Scars" . (out of 4) The fifth album from British production duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton again matches an array of guest vocalists with globe-trotting electro beats. Emerging from the '90s U.K. rave scene and its futuristic take on Chicago house, the Jaxx began edging into pop territory by showcasing distinctive vocalists on their 2002 landmark "Kish Kash." Tying together hip-hop, indie-rock and all points in between, "Scars" (Ultra/XL) continues in that vein.

Dwight Schrute would do just about anything for his boss, Michael Scott, on NBC's "The Office." Last season, when Dwight saw new HR manager Holly Flax as a threat to Michael, he tried to stuff a raccoon in her car to scare her off. Michael and Dwight are one of TV's terrible twosomes -- forever united as life partners of a sort. Call what these pairs share bromances, bramances or romances, but some TV friendships seem destined to last forever. Jemaine and Bret "Flight of the Conchords" Roommates and bandmates, these insanely calm guys are trying to make it in New York.

David Beckham may be good for soccer in the U.S., but he seems to be a divider. First, the Spice Girls broke up after he married Posh Spice (score one for David as Yoko Ono?). Now he has come between two boys, 9 and 10, who have been fast friends for three years. Beckham handed one of the boys his jersey after a Galaxy match in Honolulu. After a failed attempt to share the jersey, both families have retained attorneys and lawsuits are being threatened, the Honolulu Advertiser reported.

Yoko Ono urged the world to give peace a chance with the unveiling Tuesday of the Imagine Peace Tower on Iceland's Videy island on what would have been husband John Lennon's 67th birthday. Ono was to be joined at the ceremony by the couple's son, Sean Lennon; Beatles drummer Ringo Starr; and bandmate George Harrison's widow, Olivia. Paul McCartney also was invited.